Italy

The Italian solar market has grown by 13% so far this year and by 6% in the third quarter. New additions for September reached 32.2 MW.

Meyer Burger has signed a deal to supply 200 MW of bifacial heterojunction (HJT) solar production equipment to an undisclosed Italian PV manufacturer, in a deal valued at roughly CHF 45 million ($45.4 million).

A total of 20,000 sonnen home batteries are to be delivered in Italy by German company sonnen over the next 24 months after an €80 million ($94 million) deal with a newly formed alliance of regional installers.

Scientists of the University of Florence claim that graphene-based electron transport layers (ETL) achieve higher carrier injection with respect to most commonly used ETLs.

Through this second operation in the solar sector, the operational PV plants owned by the Italian power and gas provider have reached a combined capacity of 38.4 MW.

The two European utilities have set up a decentralized marketplace with other partners. The direct trade via Blockchain should help to save costs.

Through this operation, the Italian power and gas provider is further expanding into the solar sector.

Interview: in a conversation with pv magazine, the CEO of Italian PV integrator Enerray, Michele Scandellari, has described the trajectory of its company during the turbulent past years. According to Scandellari, solar integrators will be hired more often as subcontractors in the future, as large-scale projects are becoming gigantic.

The Italian solar market has registered 16% year-on-year growth in the first six months of 2017. New additions for June reached 29.7 MW.

Including these new plants, the company owns now around 100 MW of PV assets in Italy.